Bookbag & Backpack Websites

weight of bookbags

A weight on the shoulders
Log Cabin Democrat Features: Young students feeling strain from loaded down bookbags 11/9/98
NandoNext: A load off our shoulders
Heavy backpacks lead to backaches for kids
OnHealth: Reuters: Heavy, dangling backpacks may cause pain
Seattle Times: School officials weigh restrictions on heavy backpacks
seattletimes.com: Backpacks may look cool, but they can burden kids with pain
Weigh the Risks of Backpacks
PEC: Wellness Archives
STUDENTS SHOULDER HEAVY BURDEN
Toting trouble? Some area schools put curbs on backpacks for safety reasons - 9/3/97
09.12.99 Heavy schoolbags may contribute to backpain in childhood
HEAVY BACKPACKS SAID TO BE HURTING KIDS' BACKS / BELLEVUE CHIROPRACTORS HOPE TO CONVINCE CHILDREN TO LIGHTEN THEIR LOADS
Backpac
Book Bags
Bookbags can be bad for the back
Bookbag warning: Hefty burdens may be good for the mind, bad for the back

bookbags lead to spinal injuries

SIGHTINGS
OnHealth: Reuters: Heavy, dangling backpacks may cause pain
Toting trouble? Some area schools put curbs on backpacks for safety reasons - 9/3/97
BUBL LINK: 610 Medicine: discussion lists
Children's Express Story
University of South Australia - Centre for Allied Health Research - School Backpack Studies - 1998 Undergraduate project

 

bookbag designs

ebookbags.com
Eastpak
Clear Backpacks for School Students
bags, backpacks, soccer bags, snowboard bags
Backpacks
Vf Corp. Announcements From Rubaiyat

ergonomics

ergonomics.org
Useful links to further ergonomics information
HUMAN FACTORS and ERGONOMICS
Dr. Cockborn -- Children, Bookbags & Back Pain

backpain

Back Pain >
 

bookbags

physio archives - July 1998: Backpack and Backpain
physio archives - July 1998: Backpacks and backpain
physio archives - July 1998: Backpack and Backpain
AAOS Online Service Fact Sheet Kids and Back Packs
Irene Maher's Health Report - Backpack Backlash
 

spine information

AAOS - Your Orthopaedic Connection

sites to search both back and bags

The Polytechnic: Pain from packs common
That achy back might not be from sitting at a classroom desk all day. You might just be... Back Packed